This not only progresses the plot, but also allows us to see every situation that arises from the protagonist and antagonist viewpoints. Dan is a bully and he bullies Alex who has difficulties with stuff, like not wanting to touch stuff unless he has his gloves on. Then the boys’ mums arrange for them to meet up and finish building the raft that Dan started with his brother. When Dan and Alex’s parents (who are unaware of the bullying) suddenly arrange the unimaginable--for both boys to work together on Shooting Star, the raft that Dan was working on with his brother before he went away, both boys are angry, afraid and resentful.

Dan's the guy who's bullying him, but he's not really sure why he is apart from the fact Sophie says he should. Dan's older brother has been incarcerated, and Dan's so angry about this that he attacks and bullies Alex. Much to the dislike of both boys, the mums arrange for the pair to spend time together at the weekends building a raft. I guess it's because Alex was funny and nice, but Dan, all of a sudden, started to become nice to Alex one day while working on Shooting Star, and for me that just seems unreal, ESPECIALLY compared to the modern day school system.

I found his change throughout the book to be really quite moving, in that it didn't feel like a change as such, just as though he was finally letting himself be who he already was. Read more about the condition New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages.

You rather feel like Alex as he watches and waits for Dan, Sophie and the Georges to turn their collective gaze upon him.The friendships in this book were raw; you can really see how much these characters cared for each other and their connection. Alex has OCD, and is being bullied by Dan, who is desperately missing his brother (he's been sent to a young offenders institution). I may be naive but I link to think that there are grains of good in everyone, and that sometimes we just have to learn to understand them to help the good come out. A neat story, well told, but I spent so much time feeling just a bit annoyed with both the main characters.

I thought Foster did a good job of trying to show the two sides of the situation, of both the bully and the bullied, and give them both some depth. Thankfully, I've never really been bullied, not like Alex, but there so was something so painfully real about the way it was written. All The Things That Could Go Wrong is a very important coming of age story about how we treat people and how we don't really know what they are going through. The actual plot line of Alex helping Dan with the raft took about one third of the book to get to, however, I really felt like that first third really helped to build the characters up and their relationships with each other, and show the extent of the bullying before diving in to Alex helping with the raft. This is a really interesting book as it gives us an insight into the mind of the bully Dan and tries to understand why he behaves horribly towards Alex, whilst showing the reader the devastating effect bullying has on Alex’s life.I found the plot to be absorbing and emotionally engaging, making it a quick and intense read for me. The tension between the two boys is held throughout the book, making for an exciting read – children and adults alike will not want to put this book down as they end up rooting both for Dan and Alex. The idea of their friendship blossoming from the raft Shooting Star was such a good symbol of the novel. Of all the reasons that can give rise to that thought, the most common one is perhaps how hard life we ​​had to live as a pre-teenager. This is about a bully and his victim (who also suffers from OCD) and their points of view on their respective lives at school.

For that reason alone it’s good to have very different characters to keep me interested, but I think also that children need to meet characters that they may not come across at home or in school. What’s more is that despite his illness, Alex is completely his own person with hopes and dreams and hobbies and a life which I thought was remarkable. A moving and beautifully written story about what can happen when two completely different boys are forced to put aside their differences, for fans of Wonder . I occasionally wonder if US teenage fiction has a tendency to be a few strides ahead of UK teenage fiction in terms of how it handles difficult subjects in a really readable way. Totally obsessed with soccer and cycling, he lives in Bath, England, with his two daughters, Lois and Tallulah.

Having a child with OCD mustn’t be easy and to see how the mother and father both react to Alex’s disease was fascinating to me. Alex is terrified and spends his days trying to avoid them, but knows they’ll get him again tomorrow. I also like that its overall message is really just that you don't have to do things just because cliques at school think you should. The relationships he had with his Mum and Elliott felt particularly great in this respect, like they want him to feel better, but they also just want him to get on with playing his guitar or swapping footie stickers at lunchtime.